Still More Vocals!

10 more original songs from my treasury, hoping at least one of them will inspire something.

Michigan Woods 1972

Mire Fidore – 2022

Moon On The Hill – 1999

Oh, Feet! – 2015

Poor Miserable Shit – 1999

Riding Home – 2024

The River Conejos – 1974

Rowing Home – 1974 (not to be confused with Riding Home.” This was written as a Viet Nam protest when I heard about two navy men who defected and left their unit in protest).

Thrush Song – 2002

To Dry the Eyes that Weep – 2004

Author: Samuel A. Johnson

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Why Mountain Breakfast?

Well, many years ago, before computers and the internet, I wrote a short story about a man who carried an enormous length of garden hose up a mountain with the goal of starting a siphon to run water from a lake to his cabin below. His only friend, a water attorney (?!?!), warned him that stealing water could get him in a lot of trouble. But, undeterred by this cautionary advice, he proceeded to climb to the lake and start the siphon. Meanwhile, his friend cooked breakfast in the cabin below. By the time the hose was hooked up, his friend had set fire to the kitchen and lost control of his wits. Just when it looked like the cabin would be burned to ashes, the hose began blasting water, and he was able to save the house. This was the first of several short-short stories in a series that I called Mountain Breakfast, in which each tale involved cooking or eating breakfast in the wild. It was all about humans, all about nature, and all about human nature. I’m still at it, still hiking and thinking and writing tales, although they’re longer now, and not about eating breakfast.

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